Category Archives: Star Wars

Haven’t been posting much because I’m really busy with design work. So this afternoon I pushed away from my desk and took Grandboy to the store to make a fun purchase. I’ve aleady told you in a past post how I learned which Star Wars characters to buy for Grandboy’s education on popular culture. A quick update on that–he’s got a number of fabulous Star Wars dolls characters at this point.

So today’s shopping trip brought a new challenge–computer games. To be exact, Lego Indiana Jones 2, The Adventure Continues.” Man, the title alone should have been a clue. The adventure continues all right.

We brought the game home and Hub put it on Grandboy’s computer. I left them alone, knowing that there was going to be a learning curve, which I wanted nothing to do with. Oh dear. There was crying, yelling, stamping of feet and gnashing of teeth, and I’m not going to tell who did what.

After dinner, Hub went searching online for some help and finally figured out that he needs a game controller–an XBox 360 blabbity blab. You can buy a generic at Best Buy, so we’ll head back over there tomorrow and get it. I told Grandboy to mark this day. Many years from now, when Hub is on the Senior Tour of Video gaming, we’ll remember that it all started here.

Have I told you that Hub and I are raising our grandson? I’m sure I have. We all have a lot of fun together, but there are things that we have to work a little harder on than the average household. Like keeping up with popular culture–especially what’s popular in the world of little boys.

One day Grandboy came home from school and said that a couple of the boys on the playground didn’t want him to join in their Star Wars games because he doesn’t know who the characters are. It made him sad. Which of course, made me spring into action. I talked with some moms and they told me about these little Star Wars/Clone Wars figures that we could buy to learn their names. Oh, sorry, Clone Wars has something to do with Star Wars. Maybe the next generation of money making crap items from a movie or TV show.

So I bought these guys (above). The guy on the left is Obi Wan Kenobi, a good guy, and the guy in the middle is Anakin Skywalker, who will eventually turn to the dark side and become Darth Vader. The other ones are unknowns to me, but I believe they’re good guys (the package said they’re heroes, hence my assumption). There’s a lot of weaponry going on, but I’m sure that’s some of the allure.

BUT then I went back to store to buy some more for a birthday present and discovered that the ones above are kinda the baby edition. Oky doky. So today I bought these:

Oh yeah, now I see the difference. That’s Han Solo and a Storm Trooper. I remember Han/Harrison Ford. But whether a Storm Trooper is good or bad, I do not know. But I’ve got the feeling I’m going to find out!

I put them in those poses, just to make you laugh. Han is saying “I think we should redecorate the entire room!” The Storm Trooper is saying “Say what?”